I. Will with Everyone Welcome and thank you for being here at the 2022 texas book festival, live from austin, texas. My name is brian sweeney. Im the proud member of the Advisory Board at the texas book festival. And though i am biased, i firmly believe it is the best one in the country. So thank you for being here. We are absolutely delighted today to have two unbelievably talented authors on our panel talking about the environment both past and future. Im going to start at the end. Id like to welcome maya cave and ross and to austin and to the book festival. She is an author. Lawyer and activist. For 30 years, she has led the Delaware River Keeper Network, which is the area where she grew up and lives now with her family. And she is the founder of the green amendment for the generations, which is the subject of her book, which has been updated. It is called the green amendment the peoples fight for a clean, safe and healthy environment. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome maya, keit
Conversation. Elizabeth alexander is a prize winning and New York Times bestselling author, renowned american poet, educator, scholar and cultural advocate. Her memoir, the light of the world was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. And one of my favorite books and National Book critics circle awards. She composed and recited praise song for the day for president barack obamas. 2009 inauguration and is currently president of the Andrew Mellon foundation, the nations largest funder of the arts, culture and humanities humanities. So im looking forward to this conversation. I love this book, the trayvon generation. My first question really is about the books title, because it has multiple meanings and what what is this . What does it mean for you . The trayvon generation . Well, i think, first of all, im so happy to be here with all of you. So thank you so much for coming out. Im so happy to be here with you in what feels like an conversation that we get to focus in the here and now. So tha
Press secretary. Good afternoon, everybody. Happy monday. Ok. Tuesday. Oh, my gosh. Giving myself an extra day. All right. Well. Good to see you guys on tuesday. So we are closely monitoring the impact Hurricane Fiona is having on puerto rico and as the president has said, we are keeping the people of puerto rico in our prayers. I want to provide a brief overview of our response to date. On sunday, before the hurricane made landfall, President Biden issued an emergency disaster declaration to ensure the federal government has was ready to surge resources and Emergency Assistance to puerto rico. Yesterday, as you all know, the president called governor from air force one to discuss puerto ricos immediate needs as the storm made landfall. Karine and today fema administrator will be on the ground to assess the Emergency Response. Right now hundreds of fema and federal responders are on the ground in puerto rico, including u. S. Army corps of engineers, power restoration experts and urban
A security zone to be established around ukraines embattled sap region, Nuclear Power plants. The i e, a says the Current Situation is untenable. This is after a team of its experts visited the site last week to assess the damage and conditions for the workers there. Since Russian Troops took control of the facility early in the war, keith and moscow have accused each other of risking a radiation disaster by shelling near the site. And d, w. M r r chas at joins me from keith. I am and well, tell us more about this. I. E, a report well erred International Atomic Energy Agency report has just been published with conclusions that are not very surprising or from here in kia with the agency urging into measures to prevent a Nuclear Incident that would be caused by a physical damage due to a military means at the agency also calls for the immediate establishment of a Nuclear Safety and Security Protection zone. Knowing that of course, its a nuclear, a central Nuclear Power power power plant.
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